As gestations go, the F380 was
certainly the most protracted and
painful in Sealine’s history, possibly
in any major boatbuilder’s history.
A huge amount happened between
Sealine first taunting us with
renderings of a smart new flybridge
cruiser in 2011 and the launch of the
F380 at the Düsseldorf boat show in
January 2014, not least of which wasthe entire company slipping into
administration in April 2013. For
a while, it looked as though we would
never see another Sealine. Then, in
June that year, the news came that
investment company Aurelius AG,
owners of the huge German Hanse
group of boatbuilders, had bought
the brand, the assets and the designs.
But crucially, not the factory inKidderminster. The brand was
headed for Greifswald in Germany,
where it would join production of
the group’s Hanse, Dehler and Moody
sailing boat brands and fit neatly
alongside the group’s Fjord open
boat range, giving the company
ready access to the cruiser market.
Based on the hull of Sealine’s
ultra successful S380 sportscruiser,Sealine F380
It was a long time in the making, but Sealine created a timeless vessel in the F380
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